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The Music of Failure

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The Music of Failure

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“The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written.” So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holm’s first book of essays, The Music of FailureWhat emerges from these pages, and from Holm’s cherished writings over the next two and a half decades, is anything but failure. From his ruminations on life in Minneota, family history, and the “horizontal grandeur” of the Midwestern prairie to a poetry-reading tour of Minnesota nursing homes and an account of a naked man eating lilacs out of his garden, The Music of FailureThis 25th anniversary edition includes poignant portraits of Holm and the history of The Music of Failure by Jim Heynen and David Pichaske, along with an essay Holm requested be added to this new edition, “Is Minnesota in America Yet?” With beautiful black-and-white photographs by Tom Guttormsson, The Music of Failure is Bill Holm at both his early and quintessential best, an inimitable and much-missed writer who illuminates our private and common lives through both our quiet victories and our sublime failures.

Author Biography:

Bill Holm (1943–2009) was a one-of-a-kind poet, essayist, and musician. He wrote several acclaimed books and won the Minnesota Book Award and the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. He lived in Minneota, Minnesota, and spent summers in Iceland, and he taught English for many years at Southwest Minnesota State University. Jim Heynen has published widely as a writer of poems, novels, nonfiction, and short fiction. David Pichaske is editor in chief of Spoon River Poetry Press, Ellis Press, and Plains Press.
Release date NZ
April 29th, 2010
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  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Afterword by David Pichaske
  • Foreword by Jim Heynen
Pages
160
Dimensions
137x210x13
ISBN-13
9780816670086
Product ID
4050633

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